School of Arts and Digital Industries

Choreography (MFA)

Module highlight: Choreography

Through a collaborative and constructive laboratory environment, this module will enable students to interrogate their existing choreographic practice. Weekly questions, tasks and assignments will encourage students to investigate choreographic identity and to question the shifting roles of ‘a choreographer’. Workshop tasks and provocations will sit alongside site, museum and gallery visits to develop crafting dexterity, personal resources, skills and versatility.

The module also seeks to develop students’ working knowledge of dramaturgy and their capacities of observation, responsiveness and critical awareness in constructing self/peer review and feedback.

This year-long module operates as a series of practical workshops, laboratory tasks, offsite visits, feedback sessions, seminars and tutorials. Key assessment points will be allocated during the year – typically at the end of each term alongside an ongoing portfolio of smaller assignments.

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Computing

Module highlight: Cyber Security

Cyber-Security explores the risks and mitigations inherent to computer use. The module incorporates ideas from ethical practice, risk management, legal considerations, and technology-based solutions to address computer security issues. Cyber-Security begins by examining the concept of privacy from a philosophical, legal, and ethical stand-point, before exploring some of the technology used to protect an individual’s privacy. The module then continues by introducing foundational principles of computer security, including policies, legal frameworks, CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability), threats, and attacks. With these principles in place, the module explores secure design and the use of cryptography in computer systems. Finally, human-factors, including interface design and governance are explored.

Cyber-Security brings together concepts covered in a range of modules throughout computing, including Computing and Society, Software Development 2, and Databases. Cyber-Security explores how the issues introduced in other modules fit within current computer security definitions. The module also explores the technology to support computer security throughout.

The module will require students to undertake evaluation of systems to understand vulnerabilities and mitigations. This will best place students to understand the requirements of security as they enter the workplace.

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Data Science

Module highlight: Applications of Data Science

Data Science has dominated almost all the industries of the world today. Various sectors like banking, finance, manufacturing, transport, e-commerce, education, etc. use data science. As a result, there are several Data Science Applications related to it.

This module will review different applications where data science has had a tremendous impact in the last decade. Students will benefit by knowing how some of the leading frameworks in Data Science work while at the same time they test them over real-life datasets.

The aim of this module is to develop students’ awareness of the application areas of data science techniques. It enables students to understand the breadth of the area they are studying and thereby the breadth of the area they can be employed into.

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Web Development

Module highlight: Software Development 1

Software Development 1 introduces students to the fundamental concepts, methodologies, and techniques of software development. Programming is a key component of computer science and is an in-demand skill for the workplace inside and outside of the IT industry. Software Development 1 introduces the fundamental principles of software development, including syntax and semantics, variables and primitive data, expressions and assignment, input-output, conditions, iteration, functions, recursion, and an introduction to algorithms. The module details how to build programs using these techniques and how to apply problem-solving strategies in the design and implementation of simple programs. Students will practise the skills of programming. They will work in a high-level language, using the tools to design, implement, build, execute, and test software applications.

Software Development 1 provides students with core programming competencies. The aim of Software Development 1 is to develop students’ fluency in programming languages and software development. The module will require students to both implement their own programs and trace the behaviour of existing programs.

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